Zompist Bboard Again

I hold basically no right-wing policy views, and I despise Trump and think he's the worst president in modern American history, but I have to say I'm really getting tired of constantly seeing shit like this: Because as right-wingers, they naturally believe that constantly losing any semblance of sel...

Well, not entirely a joke, as you know. It WAS originally the names of my two dogs (not "Wilhelm" and "Übermensch") and squished together and then with some ~~EXOTIC COLORING~~ thrown on top because I was young and stupid and knew nothing about languages yet. That included not kn...

I'm pretty sure several people have now said over the years that they misread my name and pronounce it as though it were "Whimsesz"! (Unless that was also you, Zju, a while ago and I've forgotten.) Incidentally, even though it wasn't originally "supposed" to be pronounced this wa...

I'm feeling somewhat better now but its only been a day so I don't want to say I'm recovered just yet. Thanks for your advice.... I didnt go to a clinic today because I was worried I'd get sicker than when I went in, even though they say they are all taking measures to prevent spread of the virus. ...

Isn't it though? Geget sa go.

However, what I want to know at the moment is whether this medical attire is going to make a glorious comeback: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Paul_F%C3%BCrst%2C_Der_Doctor_Schnabel_von_Rom_%28coloured_version%29.png I mean, it kinda already has? https://www.mondialnews.com/wp-...

The Septuagint does contain evidence in the transcription of proper names that Hebrew at the time still distinguished PS *x (written with khi) from *ħ (unwritten) and *γ (written with gamma) from *ʕ (unwritten). So at least in the third century BC, presumably /k/ and /g/ could not have been subject...

The Septuagint does contain evidence in the transcription of proper names that Hebrew at the time still distinguished PS *x (written with khi) from *ħ (unwritten) and *γ (written with gamma) from *ʕ (unwritten). So at least in the third century BC, presumably /k/ and /g/ could not have been subject ...

Now I'm curious - in Latin American dubbings of Hollywood productions, is there a traditions of using Spain-Spanish dialects/accents to dub British actors? No. If a movie or TV show is in neutral Latin American, then every character speaks neutral Latin American. And this does generally mean gettin...

A corollary of that is that you'd normally use, say, "me" rather than "I" for the subject: "I thought you could same me, and me you ." I think this is probably due to the fact that this sort of construction is mostly literary and not spoken (and perhaps in some amount ...

Yeah I had not remembered it being quite that small. Pomoan languages have more like 20ish or a bit fewer -- Southern Pomo, which apparently has the most, has 21. (The Pomoan instrumental prefixes are the best ones anyway. I still intend to just completely rip off Pomoan in a conlang one day.)

Halkomelem also has that type of bound morphemes, and they're also often not at all like the regular nouns used for the body parts or tools in question (although sometimes they are). Are you referring to lexical suffixes? Since those are a much broader set of morphemes with a much broader set of us...

the magical back vowel ("*A") which conditions uvularization in Nivkh even though it leaves no other trace (e.g., "belly, stomach"), and in others before a front vowel ("*E") which leaves velars alone in Nivkh (e.g., "heart") Not so unreasonable on Nivkh-inte...

Halkomelem also has that type of bound morphemes, and they're also often not at all like the regular nouns used for the body parts or tools in question (although sometimes they are). Are you referring to lexical suffixes? Since those are a much broader set of morphemes with a much broader set of us...

Pabappa wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 1:45 pmSince Siouan and Pomoan are spoken quite far apart, it's possible the trait appears in many other Native American languages as well.

They do, though of course not of the same precise type everywhere, and the Pomoan and Siouan systems are pretty distinct themselves.

[EDIT: and *I* wrote *this* before seeing bradrn's posts!] "Now everyone is panicked" didn't strike me as odd when I read it, so I would say it's okay, though I'd prefer "now everyone is panicking." I personally wouldn't say "everyone is in a panic," which sounds weird ...